Going To Failure In High School

As I sat in my first block class on that day and obtained the "A" honor roll certificate I was so proud of myself and had a strong feeling of success. I realized that others would mooch around and just get by, that is not what I wanted to do. Success was my only option, I wouldn’t settle for anything other than success, and being a corporate accountant was the goal I was setting for myself even with the many hardships that were going to come with it. Nothing inspires success more than failure. I never quite understood what it felt like to fail until I received my first failing grade. I studied so hard for that test and I still failed. I was thinking about that failing grade for a couple day, and I just couldn’t quite get over it. When I saw the other people in my class had failed also, it didn’t seem to upset them. They
I know what was going through their head, “it’s just high school”. Getting that failing grade made me realize that I needed to strive for success in everything I do. Even if it was only high school, I was not going to fail ever again. If I had an uncaring attitude about failure in high school I was most likely going to have a careless attitude about college and in other things in my life. Failure is the easiest route to take, but you get nothing out of failing. I know success would be worth working for. Studying was going to be a major key to achieving many things in my life. I needed to get in the habit of studying because that was going to be the path to